The book focuses on Soueif’s mapping-out of the complex and conflictual search for identity on the part of the Egyptian protagonists, whilst questioning the possible processes of transformation in maintaining one’s own cultural diversity.

The important question is not whether they should be encouraged or prohibited but whether the choice to engage in such a relationship should be protected or precluded. Abramson argues ringingly that our freedom to make choices–to worship, make a political speech, or fall in love–is fundamental. Rules forbidding faculty-student romances are not only unconstitutional but set dangerous precedents for further intrusion into rights of privacy and conscience.

Volume 1 thus ends with a discussion of morality, from models of civic virtue (and vice) to Christian prescriptions and prohibitions.

Together, these formulations urge us to rethink our views of Victorian political economy and gender as they pertain to mystical and religious practices.

The concept of ‘wilderness’ as a foundational idea for environmentalist thought has become the subject of vigorous debates

In early modern culture and in Milton’s poetry and prose, this book argues, the concept of hope is intrinsically connected with place and land.

The book concerns itself with material rarely or never viewed as part of the “Poets’ War” (such as the mutual attempted cuckoldings of The Insatiate Countess and the Middle Temple performance of Twelfth Night) rather than with texts (like Satiromastix and Poetaster) long considered in this light.

It provides students with the tools to understand conflict in real-world contexts.

This text is aimed at undergraduate students of English Literature, and those on courses in literary theory/contemporary literature/postmodernism/intellectual history/narrative/popular culture.